For several decades, studies and conventions have highlighted the importance of ecosystem services provided by natural resources biodiversity for humanity need to move their management towards a sustainable model. Inthe United Nations 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development (2015), among its 17 Goals (SDGs), there isalsoSDG 15, “Life on Land”, specifically dedicated biodiversity, forests desertific...

Biosphere reserves are protected areas vital for the preservation of living and inanimate nature, including protection anthropogenic values cultural heritage. The basins Mura, Drava, Danube rivers stretch through Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Hungary, Serbia form a unique spatial unity. Reserve concept defines about 300,000 hectares core buffer zones around 700,000 transition zones. This large, p...

Under the ‘Man and biosferes”(MAB) program of UNESCO, biosphere reserves (BR) are supposed to be representative examples cultural natural areas in which both human activity environment play equally important roles. With proper management, BR should create a synergistic effect between humans nature order foster so-called sustainable economic social development at territories. Approaches manageme...